Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jun 2007 23:09 UTC, submitted by thebluesgnr
The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL, the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom. The programs are in the GNU/Linux operating system, as well as personal computers, telephones, Internet servers, and more. Most of these programs use the GNU GPL to guarantee every user the freedom to run, study, adapt, improve, and redistribute the program," said Richard Stallman, founder and president of the FSF. This article has some interesting replies from the BSD community (right in the middle).
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When people license software under the GPL and use the "or later" clause, the use of this wording doesn't imply retroactive changes to the licensing terms once a "later" revision of the GPL exists. The terms allows the users to distribute the licensed software under the new terms when they exist.
id est, now the gpl3 exists, all projects licensed under gpl2 or later are not automatically using the terms of gpl3. **the distributor of the software has to specify that they are offering the software under gplv3**.
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2006-03-23
already right now there are literally hundreds of quite high profile projects under gplv3.. because they are using "or later". so its not like it wont be used.
me personally, i'll use it aswell.